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DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



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euees, — their time of breeding- does not agree, — their 

 habits are opposite, and their outward and inward charac- 

 ter "" -^•'■-"V '''?°'milar. The above engraving is the 

 portrait rf the wolf. Is the reader in any danger of 

 wtvis'iii',,:',-, i- ■': '/•— •■.;:-;', of a dog? 



Thus the apparent separation of the two speeiesi 

 appears to be so wide, that a child could point it out, and 

 none but a philosopher could confound it. Others, again, 

 have gone ta warmer climates for the founder of the kind, 

 which they have, to their own satisfaction, discovered in 

 the jackal : but there are very many obstacles to be 

 surmounted, before this supposition can be acknowledged. 

 In the first place, although the dog is to be found in 

 warip climates, he thrives least in those to which the 

 jackal is entirely confined. Then all that has been urged 

 against the fancy which conceived the prototype of the 

 dog was to be found in the wolf, applies with even 



